Psychomotor performance in presenile dementia
- 1 February 1974
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychological Medicine
- Vol. 4 (1) , 65-68
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700040319
Abstract
SYNOPSIS The psychomotor performance of patients with presenile dementia was investigated in two experiments. It was found that motor retardation in dementia was due more to impaired effector processes rather than slowness in deciding when and where to move.Keywords
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